Seeking Jesus First July 7, 2025
When God brings us out of something, He is bringing us into our inheritance. We have to let go of something to take hold of something new and better.
“Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He swore to our fathers.” (Deuteronomy 6:23, NKJV)
God went to great efforts with signs, wonders and miracles to bring the descendants of Abraham out of slavery in Egypt. He brought them out of bondage to give them their own inheritance. Over 400 years before, God made a covenant with Abraham to give his descendants the land as an inheritance. God had to do mighty works to bring them out. But it wasn’t enough for God to bring them out of Egypt. God had to give them the land of Canaan as an inheritance in order to keep His promise.
Have you asked how it was fair for God to take the land of Canaan away from its current inhabitants and give it to the descendants of Abraham? God answered this question when he told Abraham that it would be 400 years before He could keep His promise. “Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” (Genesis 15:13–16, NKJV)
When the iniquity of a nation becomes complete, the land will reject them and God will look for a replacement. At the very least, this seems to be what this passage is saying. God would dispossess the Canaanites from the land in favor of the descendants of Abraham because of the covenant God made with Abraham.
That being said, God will bring us out of the things that are holding us back in order to bring us into the inheritance and plan that He has for us. We have to be willing to let go of something and press into the promise to receive it. There is an enemy that must be dispossessed in order for us to possess our inheritance. This can be seen as a spiritual type of warfare. We can’t embrace the promise without embracing obedience. Disbelief and disobedience has the potential of leaving a generation dying in the wilderness instead of entering into the promise.